Contractors Trade Exam Preparation Manuals
Digital eManual or Printed Manual. Contractor exam course manuals assist qualified tradespeople with passing the California contractor’s license exam. It is essential for preparing for your examination and gauging your readiness. The manual expands on existing work experience by focusing your attention on the information the State requires you to know. Every manual includes math & estimating formulas and general knowledge specific to the trade; they also include an extensive health and safety regulation review.
- Math Review: The math review section covers general math, estimating formulas, units of measurement, the architect’s scale, and basic geometry.
- General Knowledge: Each manual has a General Knowledge section covering trade-specific information you must be familiar with to pass your particular exam.
- Health and Safety: An extensive Health and Safety section will familiarize you with Cal/OSHA and other practices and regulations covered by the state test. Topics include the California Health and Safety Orders and administrative requirements under Cal/OSHA. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Occupational Health, Fire Protection, Work Surfaces and fall protection, Workplace Safety, and more.
- Review Questions: The “most difficult” questions on the contractor’s exam are addressed individually in the review questions section of the manual.
- Trade Practice Tests and Update Questions: Each Trade Course includes practice tests and updates covering the newest questions. The practice tests contain questions, answers, and explanations that cover trade concepts. Many practice tests also feature building and site plans to help you familiarize yourself with plan reading. Use the practice questions to test your existing knowledge and expand on it through detailed explanations of difficult questions.
Contractors Law Exam Preparation Manual
Digital eManual or Printed Manual. The contractor Law exam manual assists qualified tradespeople with passing the Law and business portion of the California contractors license exam. It is essential for preparing for your examination and gauging your readiness. The Law manual reviews the legal information required to operate as a licensed contractor. Every manual includes a review of License Law, Mechanics Liens, Labor Law, and Business management.
- Contractors License Law: Covers essential legal responsibilities, including obtaining and maintaining a license.
- Contracts: Contracts cover basic contracts, including home improvement solicitation contracts, public works contracts, and service-related contracts.
- Mechanic Liens Law: Includes an intro to mechanics liens, preliminary notice, and payment bonds.
- Employment Law: Includes human resources, hiring, payroll, and workers comp.
- Business Management: Includes human resources, hiring, payroll, and workers comp.
- Operations Management Includes project management, job site supervision, estimating, and bidding.
- Review Questions: Highlight questions of particular significance. Questions and answers are described in greater detail and referenced in the manual.
Excavation & Grading Handbook (Revised)
Included with General Engineering (A), Earthwork and Paving (C-12), Pipeline (C-34) & Sanitation Systems (C-42) contractor exam courses.
This new trusted reference is thoroughly updated to keep excavation contractors, operating engineers, and those learning the trade current with state-of-the-art equipment usage and the most efficient excavating and grading techniques. Learn how to read topo maps, set crows feet, install water drain and sewer pipes, lay or remove asphaltic concrete, use a laser level, cut drainage channels, and use GPS and sonar for absolute precision.
- Contents include: ♦ understanding road survey stakes ♦ plan reading ♦ grade setting ♦ setting grade stakes using a contour plan ♦ grading with lasers ♦ GPS and other specialized equipment ♦ road-building equipment ♦ planning for excavation ♦ excavating rock ♦ excavating subdivisions ♦ excavating commercial sites ♦ highway grading and excavation ♦ widening rural roads ♦ building narrow embankments ♦ drainage channels ♦ unsuitable material ♦ compaction ♦ curb and sidewalk grading ♦ preparing subgrade for aggregate ♦ aggregate base ♦ lime-treated base ♦ asphalt paving ♦ trenching and pipe laying ♦ trench shoring ♦ constructing maintenance holes ♦ underdrains ♦ culverts and downdrains.
- Includes CD-ROM with interactive study center: Brush up skills or study for the license exam. It is filled with hundreds of tips, pictures, diagrams, and tables every excavation contractor can use. (Requires a computer with a CD-ROM drive running Microsoft Windows to access CD & Study Center.)
Audio & Video Lectures – TRADE
- Online Streaming or Audio CDs and DVDs complement the manual and feature instructors with decades of experience who walk you through the plans, questions, and explanations and cover fundamental exam concepts in greater detail.
- Trade Lectures: Online Streaming or CD and DVD – General Knowledge. Audio CDs and video DVDs walk you through your particular trade manual. The trade lectures also explain the background concepts you are required to know. Instructors include licensed contractors, professors, and industry experts.
- Math Review Lecture: Online Streaming or CD and DVD – A review of math, including geometry and architectural scale, focusing on the construction trades. Our instructors are professional math teachers who simplify complex concepts.
- Health and Safety Lecture: Online Streaming or CD and DVD – Industry experts and licensed contractors walk you through the numerous and complicated California Health and Safety codes and regulations while explaining how to keep yourself safe on the Jobsite.
Audio & Video Lectures – LAW
- Online Streaming or Audio CDs and DVDs complement the manual and feature attorneys and Accountants with decades of experience who walk you through the intricacies of the law exam and cover fundamental exam concepts in greater detail.
- Law Lectures – License Law: Audio & Video Online Streaming or CDs & DVDs walk you through license law questions and answers. The license law lectures also explain background concepts key to passing your exam.
- Law Lectures – Mechanics Lien: Online Streaming or Audio & Video CDs & DVDs walk you through mechanics lien questions and answers. The mechanic’s lien lectures also explain background concepts key to passing your exam.
- Law Lectures – Labor Code: Online Streaming or Audio & Video CDs & DVDs walk you through labor code questions and answers. The labor code lectures also explain background concepts key to passing your exam.
- Law Lectures – Business Management: Online Streaming or Audio and video CDs & DVDs walk you through general business management questions and answers. The business management law lectures also explain background concepts key to passing your exam.
- Law& Business Review Questions: Online Streaming or Audio & Video CDs & DVDs walk you through KEY SUBJECTS AND QUESTIONS within the Law Manual.
Online Study Questions and Simulated Exams
Accessible from any online device. Online practice questions & exams: two modes of self-assessment allow you to verify your expertise. Gauge your readiness to pass your contractor license exam.
- Online practice questions and virtual flashcards: Specifically target your study. Review exam questions via non-graded practice questions and online flashcards. When you are confident, you know the answer; set that flashcard not to display while studying. Removing flashcards streamlines your efforts and focuses your attention. Items marked as known still appear in the online exams.
- Online Simulated Exams: Take online exams to practice what you learn. Gain real-time feedback so you can focus on areas you need to improve.
Online Course Materials
Digital eManual. Contractor exam course manuals assist qualified tradespeople with passing the California contractor’s license exam.
Online Streaming Audio. Complement the manual and feature instructors with decades of experience who walk you through the plans, questions, and explanations and cover fundamental exam concepts in greater detail.
Online Streaming Video. Complement the manual and feature instructors with decades of experience who walk you through the plans, questions, and explanations and cover fundamental exam concepts in greater detail.
Online practice questions: Specifically target your study. Review exam questions via non-graded practice questions and online flashcards. When you are confident, you know the answer; set that flashcard not to display while studying. Removing flashcards streamlines your efforts and focuses your attention. Items marked as known still appear in the online exams.
One-year online access: Life happens, and it can often take longer than you expect to complete your program. For this reason, we provide complete access to all online course materials for an entire year.